Head Athletic Coach – HS Football

Position is responsible for organizing the athletic program at the assigned school. Position conducts practices, motivates students, and instructs student athletes in game strategies and techniques. Develops a winning program that results in student athletes that achieve their potential academically, athletically, socially, and morality.

Essential Duties:

• Accepts responsibility for the enrollment, physical conditioning and supervision of players in that sport.
• Instructs players in the rules, regulations, equipment, and techniques of the sport.
• Schedules the events for the sport for the season and distributes this information to the academic coordinator, student athletes, parents, principals, etc.
• Selects the assistant coaches for the sport with assistant from the principal and site athletic coordinator. Monitors the performance of assistant coaches in his/her charge.
• Organizes and directs individual and group practice activities/exercises.
• Coaches whose seasons occur during scheduled breaks in the regular school year are required to schedule practices and/or games that cover a minimum of 50% of all breaks that occur during that season (i.e. 10 day break = 5 days of practice and/or games).
• All players and parents should be notified of these expectations before the season begins.
• Assesses player’s skills, monitors players during competition and practice.

Qualifications:

• The head athletic coach must be employed by Oklahoma City Public Schools and must know the policies, rules and eligibility requirements of the specified sport as well as the Oklahoma Secondary Schools Activities Association rules.
• Must possess effective coaching techniques and skills.
• Must possess the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with school administrators, parents, and students.
• Successfully completion of Care and Prevention of Athletic Injury, Concession Care, Fundamentals of Coaching, and Heat Acclimatization and Heat Illness Prevention training.
• Ability to tolerate constructive criticism and a commitment to give all players a fair opportunity to be a part of the athletic program.